{"id":193290,"date":"2025-10-06T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193290\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:11:03","slug":"merab-dvalishvili-linked-to-title-super-fight-after-ufc-320-despite-record-feat-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193290\/","title":{"rendered":"Merab Dvalishvili linked to title super fight after UFC 320 despite record feat on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Continuing his dominant run through bantamweight elites at UFC 320, Merab Dvalishvili may have pastures new awaiting him.<\/p>\n

Adding to his spectacular run in the division over the weekend, Georgian star Merab Dvalishvili<\/a> made light work of perennial contender Cory Sandhagen in another dominant decision win over the course of five rounds.<\/p>\n

And already gearing up for a potential return as soon as December at an end-of-year flagship card, the Tbilisi star has a couple of options awaiting him.<\/p>\n

However, amid links to a pair of specific rematches next, one member of Team Merab has suggested a rather exciting title prospect for him next.<\/p>\n

\"MerabPhoto by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLCMerab Dvalishvili linked with Alexander Volkanovski super fight<\/p>\n

Tying close friend and long-time training partner Aljamain Sterling as the most prolific bantamweight champion in promotional history, Dvalishvili defended his title for the third time since his ascension just over a year ago.<\/p>\n

And with rematches against both Umar Nurmagomedov and Petr Yan floated next, Dvalishvili would become the most winningest bantamweight champion of all time<\/a> with a fourth title defense.<\/p>\n

However, as far as his coach, John Wood, is concerned, there\u2019s a certain appeal to a super fight for Dvalishvili, a division higher at featherweight, against Alexander Volkanovski<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love that fight,\u201d Wood said of a clash between Volkanovski and Dvalishvili during an interview with Submission Radio. \u201cYou know Volkanovski might have a little more clean standup, but we\u2019re getting there, man.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pace of Merab, even in a bigger weight class, is just so hard to deal with,\u201d Wood explained. \u201cIt\u2019s a really interesting match because they\u2019re both so goddamn tough and both so goddamn good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Merab Dvalishvili set new record with UFC 320 win<\/p>\n

Comfortably clearing 100 takedowns in his overall Octagon run with his dominant showing against Sandhagen, Dvalishvili managed to set another stunning record in his latest defense of gold.<\/p>\n

Chalking up a staggering 20 separate successful takedowns against the challenger, Dvalishvili comfortably smashed through the prior record<\/a> of 16 set by Sean Sherk against Hermes Franca.<\/p>\n

And just narrowly failing to tie the overall record of takedowns in a single fight, Dvalishvili came one shot shy of matching Khabib Nurmagomedov\u2019s<\/a> record of 21 successful takedowns against Abel Trujillo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Continuing his dominant run through bantamweight elites at UFC 320, Merab Dvalishvili may have pastures new awaiting him.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,21903,82,44038],"class_list":["post-193290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-merab-dvalishvili","tag-sports","tag-ufc-320"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}